The influence of financial and legal institutions on firm size

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Banking crises and market discipline: International evidence (2012, methodology): “(2004) and Beck et al. (2006) use this index for purposes similar to ours.”
Formal Versus Informal Finance : Evidence from China (2008, unknown): “By comparison, Beck, Demirgüç-Kunt, and Maksimovic (2006) identify the average firm size of the one hundred largest firms in fortyfour countries from Worldscope to be fifty-one times larger at $2.15 billion.”
Small and medium-size enterprises: Access to finance as a growth constraint (2006, background): “Using cross-industry, cross-country data for 44 countries and 36 industries in the manufacturing sector, Beck et al. (2004a) show that financial development exerts a disproportionately large positive effect on the growth of industries that are technologically more dependent on small firms.”
Access to Finance (2008, background): “Beck, Levine, and Levkov (2007) also explore the channels through which financial deepening reduces income inequality.”
Quantifying the Impact of Financial Development on Economic (2010, unknown): “Beck et al. (2006) argue that the best available strategy is to use the size of the largest 100 companies in a country.”
SME finance in Africa (2014, background): “While SMEs thus constitute an important component of the private sector in the developing world, they report significantly higher obstacles to their operation and growth than large enterprises (Beck et al., 2006a).”